Monday, 5 November 2012

Tuesday, 30 October 2012

Gomez Noya was the overall winner, completing the course
(1.5-kilometer swim, 30K mountain bike, 10K trail run) in 2 hours, 26
minutes, 54 seconds. The 29-year-old from Spain followed up his silver
medal performance at the 2012 Olympics with an impressive victory in his
inaugural XTERRA appearance.

"I didn't expect that," Gomez Noya said. "I had a really good
swim ... but I knew these guys like Conrad (Stoltz) and the good
mountain bikers, they are much better than me, especially on the
technical sections, so my tactic was try to push really hard uphill
because they you can go hard uphill and then on the downhill just not
even try to go crazy fast, just try to recover and avoid crashing. It
worked pretty well."